Literary Devices in Romeo and Juliet Acts I-V

"Juliet is the sun"

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"I fear, too early; for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars"

Romeo's "What light through yonder window breaks" speech while looking at Juliet's window.

"If love be blind, it cannot hit the mark"

Juliet's famous line "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo?" actually means

"O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, of nothing first created!"

Shakespeare's favorite poetic meter

a contrast between what is said and what is meant

"The shady curtains from Aurora's bed" is an example of what literary device?

Literary device: A damnèd saint, an honorable villain!

when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters in the story do not.

"She'll not be hit / With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,"

What device is Shakespeare using when Mercutio calls Tybalt "good King of Cats," from the fable Reynard the Fox?

When Sampson asks Gregory if the law is on their side if he starts a fight with the Montagues

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

How many syllables are there in one line of iambic pentameter?

"For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Romantic love versus family responsibility

The point of highest tension that leads to the resolution. Ex) The deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does

The prologue of Romeo and Juliet is an example of which literary term?

What is the literary term for Juliet's long speech about her fears regarding the potion plan?

lineament/content; lies/eyes; lover/cover; pride/hide

How many people die in Romeo and Juliet?

What literary device is seen in this line: "Nay, [Paris is] a flower, in faith--a very flower."

[Enter CAPULET, his WIFE, JULIET, TYBALT, NURSE, and all the GUESTS and GENTLEWOMEN]

indirect reference to outside literary or historical source

"...With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead" is an example of what literary term?

Iambic pentameter is a kind of poetic meter that most closely imitates...

METER: An Iamb is...

Romeo has a dream before the party, warning him that something will happen to change his fate

Distinguish which pair of characters are foils in Romeo and Juliet.

"I am too sore enpierced with his shaft / To soar with his light feathers; and so bound"

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee,"

After Tybalt's death, the Prince sentences Romeo to which of the following punishments?

Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt are all _ to Romeo in the play

What literary device is on display when Capulet says "Death is my son-in-law; Death is my heir"?

What was Friar Laurence’s main reason for marrying Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo says, "I defy thee, stars!"

Lord Montague had a rough day the day Romeo died. When he finds out his son is dead, he says

Name the literary device

What literary device is present in this quote from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet?

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"